Motivational Quotes

Success

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Success

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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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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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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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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 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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Powell, Colin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.