Motivational Quotes

Success

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Success

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Tracy, Brian

Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Houston, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Brown, Bob

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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

Luckman, Charles

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Nightingale, Earl