Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Seneca

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

Nightingale, Earl

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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.

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

Jean Giraudoux

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Brown, Bob

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

Anna Pavlova

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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 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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Powell, Colin

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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 is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Bombeck, Erma

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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.