Motivational Quotes

Success

Success makes success, like money makes money.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Success

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

Peter, Laurence J.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Marquis, Don

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

Twain, Mark

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Allen, James

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

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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

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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 man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett