Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Success

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Disney, Walt

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Baum, Vicki

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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 steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim