Motivational Quotes

Success

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

- Mille, Cecil B. De

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

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

Wooden, John

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.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Streisand, Barbara

Success is failure turned inside out.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Reggie Leach

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Smith, May V.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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