Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Morley, Christopher

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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.

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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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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 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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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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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Korda, Michael

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

Ewing, Sam

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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