Motivational Quotes

Success

Success makes success, like money makes money.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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.

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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

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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

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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 have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.