Motivational Quotes

Success

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

- Walters, Barbara

Best Quotes about Success

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

Carson, Johnny

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Anna Pavlova

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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 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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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 is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

23.

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

Kane, Walter

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Fettig, Art

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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 can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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

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

Luckman, Charles

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George