Motivational Quotes

Success

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Fettig, Art

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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 is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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

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

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

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Los Angeles Times