Motivational Quotes

Success

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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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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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Churchill, Winston

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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 success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny