Motivational Quotes

Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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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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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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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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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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

Wendte, C. W.

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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 great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau