Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Success

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Christopher Morley

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Fettig, Art

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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.

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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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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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