Motivational Quotes

Success

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

- Hunt, Bunker

Best Quotes about Success

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Twain, Mark

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

Quayle, Dan

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Smith, May V.

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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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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 is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Henry Kissinger

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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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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.