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

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

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

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Karbo, Joe

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Backus, Jim

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam