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

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Reggie Leach

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Collins, Marva

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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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.

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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 are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Collier, Robert

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Proverb

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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 as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Success action is cumulative in its results.