Motivational Quotes

Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Success

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.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Johnson, Pete

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Seneca

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Reggie Leach

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Durante, Jimmy

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Caldwell, Sarah