Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Morley, Christopher

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Confucius

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Twain, Mark

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Smith, May V.

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