Motivational Quotes

Success

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

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

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Luckman, Charles

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Haywood, Spencer

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus