Motivational Quotes

Success

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Best Quotes about Success

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Christopher Morley

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Proverb

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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

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Carson, Johnny

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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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 is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Bombeck, Erma

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Henry Kissinger

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie