Motivational Quotes

Success

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Success

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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 think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Penn, Jack

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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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

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk