Motivational Quotes

Success

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Success

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

Degreen, Keith

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Dyer, Wayne

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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Wolfe, Thomas

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Ward, William A.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Michael Flatley

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mizner, Wilson

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Johnson, John

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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Brown, Bob

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin