Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Success

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Michael Flatley

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

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Haywood, Spencer

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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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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Reggie Leach

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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'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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.