Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Nielson, G. K.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

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

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Quayle, Dan

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Albert Schweitzer

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Mackay, John W.

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Wilson, Earl

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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.

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Crowell, Merle

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, John

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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