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

Rohn, Jim

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Kin Hubbard

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Meryl Streep

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Johnson, John

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Ashe, Arthur

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony