Motivational Quotes

Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

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

Smith, May V.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Collins, Marva

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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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

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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 is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fettig, Art

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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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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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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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Johnson, John

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon