Motivational Quotes

Success

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Success

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Baum, Vicki

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Reggie Leach

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Anna Pavlova

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward