Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Grable, Betty

Best Quotes about Success

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

Caldwell, Sarah

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Crowell, Merle

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wilson, Earl

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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.

Twain, Mark

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carson, Johnny