Motivational Quotes

Success

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

- Arthur Rubinstein

Best Quotes about Success

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Wooden, John

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Baum, Vicki

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Carson, Johnny

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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 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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mike Ditka

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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

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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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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

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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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 counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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