Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

- Rumsfeld, Donald

Best Quotes about Success

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Henry Kissinger

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jean Giraudoux

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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.

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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 simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Confucius

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Wilbur Wright

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Why be a man when you can be a success?