Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Fran Lebowitz

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Rohn, Jim

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Johnson, John

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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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 is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Reggie Leach

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Crowell, Merle

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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