Motivational Quotes

Success

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

- Backus, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter