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

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Waitley, Denis

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Morley, Christopher

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William 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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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 that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Fettig, Art

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Kin Hubbard

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower