Motivational Quotes

Success

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

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

Streisand, Barbara

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Brown, Bob

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Proverb

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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 the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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 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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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.

Herzog, Raymond