Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

- Ashe, Arthur

Best Quotes about Success

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

Binstock, Louis

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Crowell, Merle

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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 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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Walters, Dottie

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Anna Pavlova

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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Anderson, Sparky