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

Johnson, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Ewing, Sam

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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 successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hogan, James P.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul