Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Crowell, Merle

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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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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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Morley, Christopher

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.