Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Truism, Goldstein S.

Best Quotes about Success

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

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

Fettig, Art

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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 not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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

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

Barack Obama

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Degreen, Keith

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin