Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Dorsett, Tony

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dorsett, Tony

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

Hogan, James P.

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

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Banks, Harry F.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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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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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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.