Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Henry Kissinger

Best Quotes about Success

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

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

Wilbur Wright

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Browder, Charles

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Karbo, Joe

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Smith, May V.

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.