Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Peter, Laurence J.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Marquis, Don

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Popoff, Frank

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

Henry David Thoreau

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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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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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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