Motivational Quotes

Success

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

- Winters, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Success

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

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas A. Edison

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Houston, George

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. 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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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