Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Karbo, Joe

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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 is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fillmore, Charles

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Nielson, G. K.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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