Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Success

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

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

Allen, James

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Walters, Dottie

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Korda, Michael

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Rohn, Jim

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Reggie Leach

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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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.