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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Mike Ditka

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Wendte, C. W.

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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

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.