Motivational Quotes

Success

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Bombeck, Erma

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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 something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Twain, Mark

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Seneca

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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 successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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 can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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 important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah