Motivational Quotes

Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Success

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Rohn, Jim

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Cronkite, Walter

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Henry David Thoreau

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

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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

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Smith, May V.

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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 is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.