Motivational Quotes

Success

We fall forward to succeed.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Success

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Proverb

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

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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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 and money have nothing in common.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Fillmore, Charles

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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 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.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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 is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Houston, George

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.