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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Holt, Hamilton

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Barack Obama

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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 sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Reggie Leach

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 failure turned inside out.