Motivational Quotes

Success

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

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

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Rohn, Jim

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Hogan, James P.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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 is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Anna Pavlova

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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.