Motivational Quotes

Success

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Holiday, Billie

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Morley, Christopher

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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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 is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Christopher Morley

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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 in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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People fail forward to success.