Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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

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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 isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Holiday, Billie

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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.