Motivational Quotes

Success

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

- Mackay, John W.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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.

Lady Gaga

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

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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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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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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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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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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Collier, Robert

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

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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