Motivational Quotes

Success

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Success

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Pete

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Brown, Bob

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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 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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen