Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Cronkite, Walter

Best Quotes about Success

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Ward, William A.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

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

Nunn, Gregory

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Los Angeles Times

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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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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 is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Seneca

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Fettig, Art

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.