Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Success

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Anna Pavlova

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth