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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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.

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

Popoff, Frank

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Winters, Jonathan

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Price, Leontyne

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Houston, George

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter