Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Success

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Grable, Betty

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns