Motivational Quotes

Success

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

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

Success and money have nothing in common.

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.

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.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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 is more attitude than aptitude.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.