Motivational Quotes

Success

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

- Cronkite, Walter

Best Quotes about Success

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

Allen, James

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

Aristotle

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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 not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Disney, Walt

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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

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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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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.

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep