Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Success

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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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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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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 follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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