Motivational Quotes

Success

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

- Emmons, G.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Ashe, Arthur

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

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

Reggie Leach

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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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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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Binstock, Louis