Motivational Quotes

Success

People fail forward to success.

- Mary Kay Ash

Best Quotes about Success

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Nielson, G. K.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Houston, George

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Christopher Morley

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

Seneca

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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 is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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 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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 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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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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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.