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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Smith, May V.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Quayle, Dan

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Johnson, John

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin