Motivational Quotes

Success

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

- Streisand, Barbara

Best Quotes about Success

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

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.

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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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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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Brown, Bob

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Crowell, Merle

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Anna Pavlova

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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