Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Proverb

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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 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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Johnson, John

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Fettig, Art

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Mike Ditka

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.