Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Success

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

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reggie Leach

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

Lady Gaga

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Barack Obama

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Larry Page

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.