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

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Mike Ditka

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Crowell, Merle

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, John

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Popoff, Frank

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.