Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Success

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

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

Wilbur Wright

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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.

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

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

Powell, Colin

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Korda, Michael

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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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 the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Walters, Dottie

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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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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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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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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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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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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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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