Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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