Motivational Quotes

Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Success

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Collins, Marva

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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 in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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