Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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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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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

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

Durante, Jimmy

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Twain, Mark

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Morley, Christopher