Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Success

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rohn, Jim

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Anna Pavlova

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.