Motivational Quotes

Success

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Success

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

Los Angeles Times

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Syrus, Publilius

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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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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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 is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Ewing, Sam

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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