Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Banks, Harry F.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Houston, George

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

Reggie Leach

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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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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold