Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Winters, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Success

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Ashe, Arthur

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Gray, Albert

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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 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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Proverb

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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Aristotle

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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