Motivational Quotes

Success

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Success

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

Twain, Mark

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Nightingale, Earl

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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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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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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.

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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 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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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 didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Twain, Mark

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Houston, George

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

Disney, Walt

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Carson, Johnny