Motivational Quotes

Success

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

- Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Best Quotes about Success

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

Arthur Rubinstein

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Success is failure turned inside out.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Anna Pavlova

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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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 is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Nielson, G. K.

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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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 not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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.