Motivational Quotes

Success

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

- Gray, Albert

Best Quotes about Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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.

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Schweitzer, Albert