Motivational Quotes

Success

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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

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Crowell, Merle

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.

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

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Marquis, Don

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Fettig, Art

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay