Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

- Christopher Lasch

Best Quotes about Success

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

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

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

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Brande, Dorothea

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Henry David Thoreau

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon