Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Berlin, Irving

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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 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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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Powell, Colin

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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.

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

Allen, James