Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Baum, Vicki

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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 is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Hogan, James P.

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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

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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 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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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emily Dickinson

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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

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von