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

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Fettig, Art

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Browder, Charles

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Nielson, G. K.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Barack Obama

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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 simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.