Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Success

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Browder, Charles

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Mike Ditka

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett