Motivational Quotes

Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

- Kennedy Jr., Robert

Best Quotes about Success

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Proverb

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Houston, George

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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.

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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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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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 only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Hogan, James P.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim