Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Success

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Houston, George

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Proverb

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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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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