Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Anna Pavlova

Best Quotes about Success

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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 has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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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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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Brown, Bob

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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 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.