Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Ashe, Arthur

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Korda, Michael

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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 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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Holiday, Billie

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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.

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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, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Browder, Charles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Morley, Christopher

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving