Motivational Quotes

Success

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Success

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

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

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

Meryl Streep

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Hill, Napoleon

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Twain, Mark

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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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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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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 Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Binstock, Louis

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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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

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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 secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gambetta, Leon