Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

- Napier, Sir Charles

Best Quotes about Success

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Reggie Leach

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Houston, George

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Los Angeles Times

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony