Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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 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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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

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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 simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Fran Lebowitz

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