Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

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

Marquis, Don

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Smith, May V.

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

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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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Ziglar, Zig

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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 is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale