Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Streisand, Barbara

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne