Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Kin Hubbard

Success is failure turned inside out.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

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

Allen, James

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Hogan, James P.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.