Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Alderson, M. H.

Best Quotes about Success

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

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.

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

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Churchill, Winston

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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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

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Allen, James