Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about 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

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 is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

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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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

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Crowell, Merle

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Collier, Robert

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Carson, Johnny

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Holiday, Billie

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Morley, Christopher

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Twain, Mark

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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