Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is a journey, not a destination.

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Success

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Rockefeller, John D.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Holt, Hamilton

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

Mackay, John W.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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 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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Korda, Michael

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Lady Gaga

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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