Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Morley, Christopher

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jean Giraudoux

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Seneca

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Fettig, Art

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Houston, George

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

Michael Flatley

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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