Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Hogan, James P.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Waitley, Denis

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Quayle, Dan

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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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 as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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