Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Anna Quindlen

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.

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

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

Hogan, James P.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Michael Flatley

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Smith, May V.

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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 ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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