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 the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Meryl Streep

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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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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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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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 follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Morley, Christopher

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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 can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Anna Pavlova

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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 business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Allen, James

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ewing, Sam

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Mackay, John W.

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca