Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Backus, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Walters, Dottie

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

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

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

10.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Brande, Dorothea

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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.

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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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 in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

43.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles