Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Confucius

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Johnson, John

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

Brown, Bob

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Mizner, Wilson

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham