Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Powell, Colin

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Grable, Betty

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Ewing, Sam

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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 is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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.

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Hunt, Bunker

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Aristotle

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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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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

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

Allen, James

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.