Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success and money have nothing in common.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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 is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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

Crowell, Merle

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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 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 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 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 only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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