Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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 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

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob