Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no success without hardship.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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 were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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 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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Johnson, Pete

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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

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

Durante, Jimmy

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Wendte, C. W.

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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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.