Motivational Quotes

Success

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Success

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Morley, Christopher

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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.

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

Los Angeles Times

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Twain, Mark

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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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

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.