Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Success is failure turned inside out.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

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

Christopher Morley

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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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 the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk