Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Success

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Hubbard, Elbert

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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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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

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Penn, Jack

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Seneca

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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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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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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete