Motivational Quotes

Success

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Success

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

Waitley, Denis

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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 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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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 is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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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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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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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.

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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

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Barack Obama

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

Hunt, Bunker

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Robbins, Anthony

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