Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

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

Dorsett, Tony

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Wendte, C. W.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Churchill, Winston

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Jean Giraudoux

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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 is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carson, Johnny

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Korda, Michael