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

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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 the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

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

Walters, Dottie

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Wilson, Earl

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.