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

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Powell, Colin

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

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Collier, Robert

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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.