Motivational Quotes

Success

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Success

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

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

Johnson, John

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Twain, Mark

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Anna Pavlova

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard