Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Anderson, Sparky

Best Quotes about Success

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

Seneca

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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.

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

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Albert Einstein

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Mike Ditka

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Emily Dickinson

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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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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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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