Motivational Quotes

Success

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Success

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Fettig, Art

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.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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

Dorsett, Tony

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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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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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 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 road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca