Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Los Angeles Times

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Tracy, Brian

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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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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 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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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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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 not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Twain, Mark

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

Korda, Michael

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon