Motivational Quotes

Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

- Kennedy Jr., Robert

Best Quotes about Success

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

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, John

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Wooden, John

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Popoff, Frank

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Seneca

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Henry Kissinger

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Twain, Mark

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lady Gaga

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

Jean Giraudoux

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus