Motivational Quotes

Success

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Confucius

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

Proverb

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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.

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Hogan, James P.

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Dorsett, Tony

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

Christopher Morley

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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 toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Haywood, Spencer