Motivational Quotes

Success

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Success

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Penn, Jack

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

Wilbur Wright

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.

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

Michael Flatley

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

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Holiday, Billie

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

Collier, Robert

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Houston, George

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Morley, Christopher

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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