Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Success

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Walsh, Basil S.

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Luckman, Charles

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 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

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

Anna Pavlova

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.