Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Gambetta, Leon

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 sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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 you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Bombeck, Erma

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Mike Ditka

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

Proverb

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barack Obama