Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Walters, Dottie

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

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

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Seneca

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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 is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Collins, Marva

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