Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Caldwell, Sarah

Best Quotes about Success

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

Powell, Colin

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

Confucius

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

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Kane, Walter

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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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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.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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

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

Proverb

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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 my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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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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