Motivational Quotes

Success

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

- Jackson, Reggie

Best Quotes about Success

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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 not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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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

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hogan, James P.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Aristotle

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Barack Obama

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Mike Ditka