Motivational Quotes

Success

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

- Bell, Alexander Graham

Best Quotes about Success

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Wilbur Wright

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

Success is failure turned inside out.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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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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

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

Confucius

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Emily Dickinson

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Mike Ditka

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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.

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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 challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.