Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Success

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 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

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Penn, Jack

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Mackay, John W.

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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 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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Fettig, Art

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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

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

Wilson, Earl

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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.