Motivational Quotes

Success

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

- Penn, Jack

Best Quotes about Success

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Kin Hubbard

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rohn, Jim

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Houston, George

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Johnson, Pete

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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 that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Brown, Bob

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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 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