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

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

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Allen, James

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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

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Meryl Streep

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer