Motivational Quotes

Success

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

- Michael Flatley

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Penn, Jack

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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 not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Barack Obama

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Durante, Jimmy

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, John

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

Reggie Leach

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.