Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Backus, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Nielson, G. K.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Mike Ditka

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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 steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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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 is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea