Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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.

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

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Coffin, Harold

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Houston, George

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.