Motivational Quotes

Success

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

- Binstock, Louis

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

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

Popoff, Frank

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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 transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Proverb

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Marquis, Don

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.