Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Alderson, M. H.

Best Quotes about Success

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

Success and money have nothing in common.

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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 is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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 neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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.