Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Best Quotes about Success

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

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

Christopher Morley

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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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Hogan, James P.

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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