Motivational Quotes

Success

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

- David Nicholls

Best Quotes about Success

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success and money have nothing in common.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Wilbur Wright

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Morley, Christopher

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wooden, John

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Aristotle

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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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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 is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Confucius

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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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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 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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.