Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Success

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Smith, May V.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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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

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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

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Carson, Johnny

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns