Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Michael Flatley

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.

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Aristotle

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.

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Mike Ditka

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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 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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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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 not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Tracy, Brian

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Waitley, Denis

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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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

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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My definition of success is control.