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

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

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.

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.

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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

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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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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Ziglar, Zig

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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.