Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Success

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

Franklin, Benjamin

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ward, William A.

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

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Crowell, Merle

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Houston, George

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Albert Einstein

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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 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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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 has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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