Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Success

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rohn, Jim

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Morley, Christopher

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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 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

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Los Angeles Times

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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