Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Success

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Twain, Mark

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nightingale, Earl

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Mackay, John W.

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Crowell, Merle

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Jean Giraudoux

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Tracy, Brian

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John