Motivational Quotes

Success

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

- Binstock, Louis

Best Quotes about Success

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Wilbur Wright

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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

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Alderson, M. H.

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Barack Obama

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Henry Kissinger

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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 in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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