Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Price, Leontyne

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

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

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Degreen, Keith

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

Hill, Napoleon

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Berlin, Irving

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Mike Ditka

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

Crowell, Merle

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Walters, Dottie

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Reggie Leach

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.