Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Success

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

Peter, Laurence J.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Fillmore, Charles

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Smith, May V.

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Korda, Michael

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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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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

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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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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie