Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walsh, Basil S.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

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

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Mike Ditka

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Churchill, Winston

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Collier, Robert

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.