Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

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

Quayle, Dan

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.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Christopher Morley

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

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Wilson, Earl

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Coffin, Harold

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Reggie Leach

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns