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

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

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

Dorsett, Tony

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

Price, Leontyne

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

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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 do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Korda, Michael

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

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Luckman, Charles

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Los Angeles Times

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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 is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret