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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Emily Dickinson

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Penn, Jack

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

Marquis, Don

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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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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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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