Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Success

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Allen, James

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Cronkite, Walter

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Hunt, Bunker

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

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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 like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Houston, George

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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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

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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 simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Smith, May V.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Reggie Leach

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rohn, Jim

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.