Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Success and money have nothing in common.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Kane, Walter

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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 peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Binstock, Louis

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Ziglar, Zig

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Fettig, Art

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin