Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

- Tarkenton, Fran

Best Quotes about Success

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Ashe, Arthur

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

Johnson, Pete

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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 A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Berlin, Irving

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David