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

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Henry Kissinger

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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