Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Browder, Charles

Best Quotes about 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

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Popoff, Frank

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

Confucius

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

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

Shoaff, Edgar

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Luckman, Charles

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Kane, Walter

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.