Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Jean Giraudoux

Best Quotes about Success

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

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

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

Michael Flatley

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Collins, Marva

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Barack Obama

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie