Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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

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

Korda, Michael

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Reggie Leach

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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 can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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 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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Ward, William A.

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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