Motivational Quotes

Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Success

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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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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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Seneca

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.