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

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Reggie Leach

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rohn, Jim

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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 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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Quayle, Dan

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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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

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Albert Schweitzer