Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Success

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

Hogan, James P.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

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

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Tracy, Brian

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Reggie Leach

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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

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Alderson, M. H.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.