Motivational Quotes

Success

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

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

Berlin, Irving

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Collins, Marva

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Larry Page

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Backus, Jim

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Morley, Christopher

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.