Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Billings, Josh

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Rohn, Jim

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Houston, George

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Korda, Michael

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

Seneca

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Success has always been a great liar.