Motivational Quotes

Success

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

- Givens, Charles J.

Best Quotes about Success

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Backus, Jim

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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

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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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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.

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

Wilbur Wright

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe