Motivational Quotes

Success

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Success

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

Tracy, Brian

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.

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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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.

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold