Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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 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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Christopher Morley

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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