Motivational Quotes

Success

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Success

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

Henry Kissinger

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

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Noble, Alex

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Waitley, Denis

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Mike Ditka

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Larry Page

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

Syrus, Publilius

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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 common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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