Motivational Quotes

Success

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

- Henry Kissinger

Best Quotes about Success

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Popoff, Frank

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Streisand, Barbara

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Proverb

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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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 no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

32.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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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 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 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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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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.

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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 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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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 ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aristotle