Motivational Quotes

Success

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Meryl Streep

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Houston, George

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Johnson, John

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

Luckman, Charles

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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 already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.