Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey 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 is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Emily Dickinson

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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 by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Backus, Jim

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don