Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Bombeck, Erma

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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 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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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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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Henry Kissinger

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Twain, Mark