Motivational Quotes

Success

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

- Alderson, M. H.

Best Quotes about Success

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.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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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

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

Kane, Walter

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Carson, Johnny

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Collier, Robert

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.