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

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

Morley, Christopher

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Albert Schweitzer

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Reggie Leach

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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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Meryl Streep

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

Proverb

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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

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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Gambetta, Leon

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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.

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

Crowell, Merle