Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Success

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

Twain, Mark

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Powell, Colin

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Smith, May V.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Emily Dickinson

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

Kane, Walter

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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 peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles