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

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Backus, Jim

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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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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

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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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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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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 freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Korda, Michael

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Churchill, Winston