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

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rohn, Jim

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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 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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Haywood, Spencer

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.