Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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.

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.

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

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Banks, Harry F.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Twain, Mark

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Kane, Walter

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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