Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Napier, Sir Charles

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Johnson, John

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.