Motivational Quotes

Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

- Tom Peters

Best Quotes about Success

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Allen, James

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Dorsett, Tony

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

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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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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Mike Ditka