Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

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

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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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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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Korda, Michael

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Luckman, Charles

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

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Waitley, Denis

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Quayle, Dan