Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Powell, Colin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Los Angeles Times

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb