Motivational Quotes

Success

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

- Sweeney, Paul

Best Quotes about Success

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Robbins, Anthony

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Reggie Leach

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

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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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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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 failure turned inside out.

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

Wendte, C. W.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Johnson, John

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

Mizner, Wilson

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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 don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Ewing, Sam

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Dorsett, Tony

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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