Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Walters, Dottie

Best Quotes about Success

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Ward, William A.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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 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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Baum, Vicki

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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