Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

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

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

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.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Twain, Mark

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Rohn, Jim