Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Rohn, Jim

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Ziglar, Zig

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Shoaff, Edgar

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Quayle, Dan

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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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Brown, Bob

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony