Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Korda, Michael

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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 secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brown, Bob

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Collins, Marva

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Henry Kissinger