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

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

Nunn, Gregory

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Morley, Christopher

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.

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Johnson, John

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Reggie Leach

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

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

Nielson, G. K.