Motivational Quotes

Success

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

- Toynbee, Arnold

Best Quotes about Success

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mike Ditka

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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 isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Fran Lebowitz

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Dyer, Wayne

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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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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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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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