Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Meryl Streep

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

Collier, Robert

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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 like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Proverb

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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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 is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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 always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney