Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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

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

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Reggie Leach

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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 man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Penn, Jack

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Baum, Vicki

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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.