Motivational Quotes

Success

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

- Wilson, Sloan

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Backus, Jim

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

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

Thibodeau, Robert

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

13.

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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 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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Proverb

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

Disney, Walt

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.