Motivational Quotes

Success

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Crowell, Merle

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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.

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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 ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Barack Obama

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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar