Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Wilbur Wright

Best Quotes about Success

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Wendte, C. W.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Grable, Betty

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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