Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Success

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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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 tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Luckman, Charles

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi