Motivational Quotes

Success

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

- Sweeney, Paul

Best Quotes about Success

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Carson, Johnny

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Napier, Sir Charles

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Christopher Morley

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.