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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Browder, Charles

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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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 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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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

Michael Flatley

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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 is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.