Motivational Quotes

Success

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Success

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Churchill, Winston

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Barack Obama

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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.

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Fettig, Art

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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Johnson, John

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

Penn, Jack