Motivational Quotes

Success

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

- Sweeney, Paul

Best Quotes about Success

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

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

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

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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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

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

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Jean Giraudoux

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Albert Schweitzer

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.