Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Fillmore, Charles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Carson, Johnny

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

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Degreen, Keith

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.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Crowell, Merle

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Browder, Charles

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

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

Wendte, C. W.

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Houston, George

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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.