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

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Binstock, Louis

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

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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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

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Degreen, Keith

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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 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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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