Motivational Quotes

Success

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Success

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Degreen, Keith

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.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

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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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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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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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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 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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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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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

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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 goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb