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

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hunt, Bunker

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

Barack Obama

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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.

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

Ward, William A.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Penn, Jack

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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 are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.