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

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Holt, Hamilton

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Rouss, Charles B.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Rohn, Jim

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Anna Pavlova

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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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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

Confucius

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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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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Powell, Colin

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Morley, Christopher

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.