Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Allen, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Seneca

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

Browder, Charles

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Ziglar, Zig

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