Quotes about success

"Success and money have nothing in common."

Unknown, Source on success   

"Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well."

Unknown, Source on success
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"Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given."

Unknown, Source on success   

"A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in."

Unknown, Source on success   

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

Waitley, Denis on success   

"We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have."

Walsh, Basil S. on success
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"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 on success   

"Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase."

Walters, Dottie on success
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"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."

Wang, An on success   

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

Ward, William A. on success   

"Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills."

Ward, William A. on 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. on success
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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. on success   

"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."

Watson, Thomas J. on success   

"Success action is cumulative in its results."

Wattles, Wallace D. on success   

"There is always room at the top."

Webster, Daniel on success   

"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. on 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. on success   

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

Wendte, C. W. on success   

"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 on success   

"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 on success   

"Nothing succeeds like success."

Wilde, Oscar on success   

"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."

Williams, Tennessee on success   

"Success and failure are equally disastrous."

Williams, Tennessee on success   

"The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world."

Williamson, Marianne on success   

"There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work."

Wilson, Charles E. on success   

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

Wilson, Earl on 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 on success   

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

Wilson, Woodrow T. on success
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"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

Winters, Jonathan on success
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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 on success   

"Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters."

Wooden, John on success
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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 on success   

"Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well."

Wooden, John on success
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"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."

Wooden, John on success
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"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration."

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson on success   

"Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands."

Ziglar, Zig on success
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"You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want."

Ziglar, Zig on success   

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

Ziglar, Zig on success
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"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

Ziglar, Zig on success