Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Henry Kissinger

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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.

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

Albert Einstein

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Disney, Walt

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea