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

Marden, Orison Swett

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Mackay, John W.

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

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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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Wooden, John

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Penn, Jack

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.