Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Fettig, Art

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Thomas A. Edison

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Backus, Jim

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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 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's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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 is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Banks, Harry F.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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 steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Brown, Bob

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

Johnson, John

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

Collins, Marva

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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, 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