Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Success

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 and money have nothing in common.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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