Motivational Quotes

Success

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Napier, Sir Charles

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Allen, James

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Ewing, Sam

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Brown, Bob

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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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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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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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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