Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Success

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Johnson, Pete

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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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

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carson, Johnny

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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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 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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 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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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