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

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

Success is failure turned inside out.

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Ewing, Sam

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie