Motivational Quotes

Success

The road to success runs uphill.

- Davis, Willie

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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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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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Luckman, Charles

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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 is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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.