Motivational Quotes

Success

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

- Houston, George

Best Quotes about Success

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Michael Flatley

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.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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

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

Noble, Alex

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.