Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Franklin, Benjamin

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Backus, Jim

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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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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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar