Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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.

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

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Barack Obama

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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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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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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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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 A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.