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

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gray, Albert

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

Fettig, Art

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

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

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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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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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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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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.

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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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.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Binstock, Louis

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

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Browder, Charles

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Reggie Leach

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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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Norman Vincent Peale

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius