Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Holt, Hamilton

Best Quotes about Success

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

Powell, Colin

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Korda, Michael

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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

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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

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Wilson, Earl

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert