Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Korda, Michael

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Alderson, M. H.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson