Motivational Quotes

Success

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

- Houston, George

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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.

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

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Luckman, Charles

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

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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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.

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Fran Lebowitz

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Ewing, Sam

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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