Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Success

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Meryl Streep

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Carson, Johnny

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

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Backus, Jim

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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 claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.