Motivational Quotes

Success

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Best Quotes about Success

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Henry Kissinger

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Backus, Jim

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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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 tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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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 failure turned inside out.

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

Smith, May V.

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Allen, James

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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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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