Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Hogan, James P.

Best Quotes about Success

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

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Disney, Walt

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

Alderson, M. H.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

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

Fettig, Art

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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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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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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Albert Schweitzer

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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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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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman