Motivational Quotes

Success

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

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

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Marquis, Don

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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 is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mackay, John W.

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Rohn, Jim