Motivational Quotes

Success

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

- Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Best Quotes about Success

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

Marquis, Don

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

Bombeck, Erma

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Kane, Walter

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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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Anna Pavlova

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Reggie Leach

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Carson, Johnny

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Kin Hubbard

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.