Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

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.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Barack Obama

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Allen, James

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Backus, Jim

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily