Motivational Quotes

Success

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Best Quotes about Success

Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Berlin, Irving

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Mike Ditka

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Norman Vincent Peale

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Crowell, Merle

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Rohn, Jim

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie