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 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

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Disney, Walt

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

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

Napier, Sir Charles

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Smith, May V.

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Morley, Christopher

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Quayle, Dan

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Proverb

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

Reggie Leach

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard