Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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.

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

Smith, May V.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

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

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

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Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Price, Leontyne

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Anderson, Sparky

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Alderson, M. H.

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no success without hardship.