Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

- Tarkenton, Fran

Best Quotes about Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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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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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Tarkenton, Fran

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Crowell, Merle

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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.