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

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.

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

Anna Pavlova

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Waitley, Denis

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Luckman, Charles

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb

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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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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth