Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Emily Dickinson

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Reggie Leach

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt