Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

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

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Johnson, Pete

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Holiday, Billie

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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Reggie Leach

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Ewing, Sam

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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