Motivational Quotes

Success

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Success

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Rohn, Jim

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

Rohn, Jim

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Johnson, John

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

Henry Kissinger

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Larry Page

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.