Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Meryl Streep

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Disney, Walt

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.

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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 owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 is more attitude than aptitude.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

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