Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

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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 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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

6.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

7.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

8.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

9.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

10.

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

Walters, Dottie

11.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

12.

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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

15.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

16.

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

Confucius

17.

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

Wilbur Wright

18.

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

19.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

22.

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

23.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

24.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

25.

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

26.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

27.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

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

Albert Schweitzer

30.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

31.

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

32.

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

Powell, Colin

33.

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

Morley, Christopher

34.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

35.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

36.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

37.

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

42.

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.

43.

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

44.

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.

45.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

46.

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

47.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

48.

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

49.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

50.

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

Thibodeau, Robert