Motivational Quotes

Success

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Success

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Reggie Leach

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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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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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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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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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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

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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.