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

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

Mike Ditka

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

Holt, Hamilton

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

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

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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 is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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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 is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Haywood, Spencer

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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 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

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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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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama