Motivational Quotes

Success

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Success

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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 peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Confucius

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.