Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Nielson, G. K.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

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

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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Collins, Marva

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Luckman, Charles

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Rohn, Jim

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Henry Kissinger