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

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

Wooden, John

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Houston, George

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

Wilson, Earl

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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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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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.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen