Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Wendte, C. W.

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Walters, Dottie

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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.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Durante, Jimmy