Motivational Quotes

Success

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Success

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Confucius

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

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Seneca

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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.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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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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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

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.