Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

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

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

Collins, Marva

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

Marden, Orison Swett

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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 your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily