Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Ziglar, Zig

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Hill, Napoleon

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Rohn, Jim

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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

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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

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Barack Obama

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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

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My definition of success is control.