Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Michael Flatley

Best Quotes about Success

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

Larry Page

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Albert Schweitzer

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

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

Christopher Morley

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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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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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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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham