Motivational Quotes

Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Success

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Hunt, Bunker

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

Los Angeles Times

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Fettig, Art

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

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

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

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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 breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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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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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Nightingale, Earl

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.