Motivational Quotes

Success

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Success

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilson, Earl

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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.

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 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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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 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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Streisand, Barbara

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success has always been a great liar.