Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Hogan, James P.

Best Quotes about Success

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fettig, Art

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Los Angeles Times

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Houston, George

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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 leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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 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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Barack Obama

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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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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 Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Hunt, Bunker

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

Crowell, Merle

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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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Quayle, Dan

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon