Motivational Quotes

Success

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

- Anna Pavlova

Best Quotes about Success

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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 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

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

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.

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Robbins, Anthony

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.