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

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

Ziglar, Zig

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Billings, Josh

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Nielson, G. K.

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Luckman, Charles

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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 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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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 usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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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.