Motivational Quotes

Success

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

- Smith, May V.

Best Quotes about Success

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Brown, Bob

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Fettig, Art

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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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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Morley, Christopher

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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.