Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Smeltzer, Ruth

Best Quotes about Success

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

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

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Brown, Bob

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Ashe, Arthur

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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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

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

Mike Ditka

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Henry Kissinger