Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

- Bach, Dr. Marcus

Best Quotes about Success

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Grable, Betty

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Albert Schweitzer

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Marquis, Don

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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 didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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