Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Shoaff, Edgar

Success is failure turned inside out.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Albert Einstein

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

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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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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

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Twain, Mark

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Wooden, John

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Smith, May V.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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 not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann