Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Popoff, Frank

Best Quotes about Success

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rouss, Charles B.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bombeck, Erma

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Barack Obama

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Allen, James

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen