Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Shoaff, Edgar

Best Quotes about Success

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Quayle, Dan

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

Crowell, Merle

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Hunt, Bunker

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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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

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

Korda, Michael

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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