Motivational Quotes

Success

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Christopher Morley

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Albert Einstein

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Kane, Walter

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

Los Angeles Times

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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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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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

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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.

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Haywood, Spencer

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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Allen, James

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Henry David Thoreau

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Watson, Thomas J.