Motivational Quotes

Success

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Reggie Leach

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ward, William A.

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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