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 you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Lady Gaga

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

Syrus, Publilius

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mike Ditka

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Barack Obama

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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 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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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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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

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

Crowell, Merle

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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

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Brown, Bob

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.