Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Collins, Marva

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Ziglar, Zig

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dorsett, Tony

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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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

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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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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Allen, James

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Houston, George

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Walters, Dottie

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Los Angeles Times

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein