Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

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

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Albert Schweitzer

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Kane, Walter

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

Nielson, G. K.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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.

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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

Meryl Streep

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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