Motivational Quotes

Success

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Wendte, C. W.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Houston, George

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Noble, Alex

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin