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

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.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Hunt, Bunker

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

Henry Kissinger

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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

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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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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John