Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Penn, Jack

Best Quotes about Success

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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 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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Henry Kissinger

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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 formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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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

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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