Motivational Quotes

Success

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success and money have nothing in common.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Barack Obama

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bombeck, Erma

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.