Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Walters, Dottie

Best Quotes about Success

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Seneca

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

Nunn, Gregory

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

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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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

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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

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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

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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 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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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning