Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Winters, Jonathan

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

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

Dorsett, Tony

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Kane, Walter

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

Backus, Jim

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

Rohn, Jim

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carson, Johnny

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Browder, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.