Motivational Quotes

Success

Success action is cumulative in its results.

- Wattles, Wallace D.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Los Angeles Times

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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 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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Houston, George

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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.