Motivational Quotes

Success

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

- Alderson, M. H.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Schweitzer, Albert

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Crowell, Merle

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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 is failure turned inside out.

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Houston, George

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

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