Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Degreen, Keith

Best Quotes about Success

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Mackay, John W.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Browder, Charles

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Christopher Morley

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Johnson, John

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

Brown, Bob

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John