Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Fettig, Art

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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 be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Banks, Harry F.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Smith, May V.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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