Motivational Quotes

Success

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

- Truism, Goldstein S.

Best Quotes about Success

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Proverb

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

Binstock, Louis

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Baum, Vicki

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Hogan, James P.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mike Ditka

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Allen, James

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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 counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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