Motivational Quotes

Success

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

- Granatelli, Andrew

Best Quotes about 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.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Wilbur Wright

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

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

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Degreen, Keith

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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