Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Success

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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.

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Quayle, Dan

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Baum, Vicki

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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 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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Brown, Bob

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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