Motivational Quotes

Success

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

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.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Anna Pavlova

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Jean Giraudoux

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Nightingale, Earl

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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