Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Durante, Jimmy

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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Houston, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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 owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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.