Motivational Quotes

Success

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Success

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fran Lebowitz

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Allen, James

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Christopher Morley

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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 road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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.