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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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.

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

Brande, Dorothea

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Twain, Mark

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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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 in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Meryl Streep

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Waitley, Denis

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