Motivational Quotes

Success

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Success

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kane, Walter

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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

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Proverb

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Los Angeles Times

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Morley, Christopher

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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.

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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