Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Hogan, James P.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Christopher Morley

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Cronkite, Walter