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

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Crowell, Merle

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Nielson, G. K.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Popoff, Frank

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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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, 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

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Mike Ditka

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius