Motivational Quotes

Success

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Success

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Binstock, Louis

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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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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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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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 the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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 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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Allen, James

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

Mike Ditka

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Brown, Bob

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Holt, Hamilton

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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