Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Karbo, Joe

Best Quotes about Success

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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 comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Baum, Vicki

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Twain, Mark

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Gambetta, Leon

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Luckman, Charles

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Korda, Michael

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, 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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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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.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch