Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Berlin, Irving

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Reggie Leach

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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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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Bob

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Hogan, James P.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Michael Flatley

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

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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.