Motivational Quotes

Success

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Popoff, Frank

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Aristotle

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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 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 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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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

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

Powell, Colin

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

Twain, Mark

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Emily Dickinson

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Anderson, Sparky

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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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