Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Luckman, Charles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Rohn, Jim

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Henry David Thoreau

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Wooden, John

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Quayle, Dan

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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.