Motivational Quotes

Success

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

- Fettig, Art

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

Emmons, G.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Hill, Napoleon

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Ziglar, Zig

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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