Motivational Quotes

Success

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

- Follin, G. W.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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 is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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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

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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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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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 consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John