Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

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

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Cronkite, Walter

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Backus, Jim

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Pete

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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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, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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.

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

Crowell, Merle

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Hogan, James P.

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Ashe, Arthur

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Smith, May V.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hill, Napoleon