Motivational Quotes

Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about 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

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Fettig, Art

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Powell, Colin

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Kane, Walter

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett