Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wilbur Wright

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Barack Obama

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Anna Pavlova

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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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

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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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 no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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