Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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.

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

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Houston, George

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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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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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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

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep