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

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Browder, Charles

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

Berlin, Irving

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

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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.