Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Anderson, Sparky

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Los Angeles Times

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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 the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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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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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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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.