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

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Quayle, Dan

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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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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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Albert Einstein

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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.

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

Anna Pavlova

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Hogan, James P.

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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 is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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

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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