Motivational Quotes

Success

You never become a howling success by just howling.

- Harrington, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Houston, George

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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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

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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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

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Collier, Robert

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Popoff, Frank

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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

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Haywood, Spencer

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Nielson, G. K.