Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Hill, Napoleon

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Peter, Laurence J.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Seneca

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ziglar, Zig

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Brande, Dorothea

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Confucius

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.