Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Penn, Jack

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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.

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

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

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Mike Ditka

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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 real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Brown, Bob

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Luckman, Charles

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon