Motivational Quotes

Success

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Popoff, Frank

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Collier, Robert

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Syrus, Publilius

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Backus, Jim

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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