Motivational Quotes

Success

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

- Beaux, Gilberte

Best Quotes about Success

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Michael Flatley

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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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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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Coffin, Harold

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Carson, Johnny

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

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

Brown, Bob

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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