Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Powell, Colin

Best Quotes about Success

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Price, Leontyne

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Buffett, Warren

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.

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.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Browder, Charles

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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 the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Proverb

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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

Henry Kissinger

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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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 is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Reggie Leach

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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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

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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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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Larry Page

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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.