Motivational Quotes

Success

The only journey is the one within.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Success

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

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Emily Dickinson

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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 is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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 is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.