Motivational Quotes

Success

You never become a howling success by just howling.

- Harrington, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Penn, Jack

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Billings, Josh

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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.

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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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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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Baum, Vicki

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Twain, Mark

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

Aristotle

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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 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