Motivational Quotes

Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Rohn, Jim

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Brown, Bob

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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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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 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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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 would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.