Motivational Quotes

Success

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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 give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Seneca

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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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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Barack Obama

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, John

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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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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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky