Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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 failure turned inside out.

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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 no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Backus, Jim

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ewing, Sam

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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

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Collins, Marva

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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.