Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Aristotle

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

Success is failure turned inside out.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Popoff, Frank

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer