Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Twain, Mark

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Penn, Jack

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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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.