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

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Seneca

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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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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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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