Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

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.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Johnson, Pete

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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

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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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Mike Ditka

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.