Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Success

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Ashe, Arthur

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Confucius

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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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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Rohn, Jim

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mackay, John W.

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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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.

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

Henry Kissinger

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis