Motivational Quotes

Success

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

- Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

Best Quotes about Success

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

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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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

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Johnson, John

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael