Motivational Quotes

Success

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Albert Einstein

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Baum, Vicki

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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 most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Confucius

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

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Crowell, Merle

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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