Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Smeltzer, Ruth

Best Quotes about Success

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

Confucius

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

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

Barack Obama

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Arthur Rubinstein

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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

Proverb

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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

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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Johnson, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

30.

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

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

Coffin, Harold

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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 a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark