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

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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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 requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Haywood, Spencer

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Barack Obama

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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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

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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 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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Christopher Morley

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John