Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

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

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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.

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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 man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

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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 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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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Allen, James

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Billings, Josh

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Carson, Johnny

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.