Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Wilbur Wright

Best Quotes about Success

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Albert Schweitzer

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Binstock, Louis

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

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

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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 how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

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

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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Marquis, Don

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Winters, Jonathan

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 and money have nothing in common.

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

Collier, Robert

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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