Motivational Quotes

Success

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dorsett, Tony

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Houston, George

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Backus, Jim

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cronkite, Walter

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Barack Obama

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Michael Flatley

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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.