Motivational Quotes

Success

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Success

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Hunt, Bunker

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

Proverb

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Los Angeles Times

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Backus, Jim

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Luckman, Charles

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.