Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Mackay, John W.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

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.

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 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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Wilson, Earl

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Browder, Charles

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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 key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.