Motivational Quotes

Success

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

- Bliss, Edwin C.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Penn, Jack

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

Meryl Streep

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Confucius

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Dyer, Wayne

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.