Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Johnson, Pete

Best Quotes about Success

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

Alderson, M. H.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Mizner, Wilson

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Holiday, Billie

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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.