Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Johnson, John

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Morley, Christopher

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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 didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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 and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Houston, George

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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