Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no success without hardship.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Morley, Christopher

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Wooden, John

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Morley, Christopher

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Johnson, Pete

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

Fettig, Art

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Proverb

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

Barack Obama

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

Albert Einstein

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Johnson, John

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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 can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur