Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Crowell, Merle

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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.

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

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

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Holiday, Billie

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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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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 and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Korda, Michael

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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 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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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