Motivational Quotes

Success

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

- Collins, Marva

Best Quotes about Success

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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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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

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

Binstock, Louis

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

28.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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 is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.