Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Hunt, Bunker

Best Quotes about Success

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Seneca

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Los Angeles Times

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Reggie Leach

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

Barack Obama

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Ewing, Sam

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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 gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Binstock, Louis

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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