Motivational Quotes

Success

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

- Beaux, Gilberte

Best Quotes about Success

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Houston, George

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 and money have nothing in common.

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Rohn, Jim

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie