Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

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

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wooden, John

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.