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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Disney, Walt

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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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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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Cronkite, Walter

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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

Johnson, Pete

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

Christopher Morley

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Albert Schweitzer

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Wilbur Wright

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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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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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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Fran Lebowitz