Motivational Quotes

Success

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

- Anthony, Dr. Robert

Best Quotes about Success

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

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

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Billings, Josh

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Seneca

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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