Motivational Quotes

Success

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Success

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Henry Kissinger

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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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

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rohn, Jim

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.