Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

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

Haywood, Spencer

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

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

Korda, Michael

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

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

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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 is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Henry Kissinger

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Los Angeles Times

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Ewing, Sam

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Ward, William A.

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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 is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus