Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Success

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Emily Dickinson

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Los Angeles Times

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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

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Syrus, Publilius

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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.

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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

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

Walters, Dottie

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, 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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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 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.

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren