Motivational Quotes

Success

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

- Bok, Edward William

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Luckman, Charles

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

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

Billings, Josh

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Ward, William A.

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Smith, May V.

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Twain, Mark

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Ewing, Sam

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.