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

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Morley, Christopher

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Crowell, Merle

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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 is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Success action is cumulative in its results.