Motivational Quotes

Success

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Rohn, Jim

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Fran Lebowitz

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Kane, Walter

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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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.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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 I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Christopher Morley

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Albert Schweitzer

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Larry Page

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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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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie