Motivational Quotes

Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Success

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Walsh, Basil S.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Confucius

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Anna Pavlova

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Penn, Jack

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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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Walters, Dottie

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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 at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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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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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

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Barack Obama

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Holt, Hamilton

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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