Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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.

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

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

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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 is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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 come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Houston, George

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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

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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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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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 really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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 is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Barack Obama

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