Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Proverb

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

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Dorsett, Tony

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Henry Kissinger

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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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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 that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Wilbur Wright

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Twain, Mark

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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

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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

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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.

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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Billings, Josh

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Houston, George

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.