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

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

Brown, Bob

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

Anna Pavlova

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Noble, Alex

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Barack Obama

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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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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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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

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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 toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

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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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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Powell, Colin