Motivational Quotes

Success

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

- Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Best Quotes about Success

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Success and money have nothing in common.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

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

Nielson, G. K.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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.

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Coffin, Harold

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Allen, James

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

Waitley, Denis

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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