Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Disney, Walt

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Houston, George

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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 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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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hogan, James P.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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 is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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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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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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 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

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny