Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Grable, Betty

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carson, Johnny

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Korda, Michael

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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 counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.