Motivational Quotes

Success

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Holiday, Billie

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Nightingale, Earl

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 is failure turned inside out.

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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 only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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 is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Price, Leontyne

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Marquis, Don

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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.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.