Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Degreen, Keith

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Brown, Bob

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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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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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Quayle, Dan

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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