Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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

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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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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Reggie Leach

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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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

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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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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

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Aristotle

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Smith, May V.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Hunt, Bunker

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.