Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Korda, Michael

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Twain, Mark

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Fettig, Art

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl