Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Allen, James

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Anderson, Sparky

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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 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.