Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Aristotle

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Coffin, Harold

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Confucius

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Seneca

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

Reggie Leach

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

Collier, Robert

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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 not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt