Motivational Quotes

Success

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

- Conwell, Russel H.

Best Quotes about Success

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

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

Success and money have nothing in common.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Twain, Mark

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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 dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope