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

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

Johnson, John

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Banks, Harry F.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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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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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 not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Houston, George

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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig