Motivational Quotes

Success

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

- Joseph Addison

Best Quotes about Success

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

Houston, George

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Crowell, Merle

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Disney, Walt

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Collier, Robert

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Proverb

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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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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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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 is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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 what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Confucius

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.