Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Success

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

Rouss, Charles B.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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.

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

Ewing, Sam

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Carson, Johnny

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.

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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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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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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.

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Henry Kissinger

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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 measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin