Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

- Christopher Lasch

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Browder, Charles

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Nightingale, Earl

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Alderson, M. H.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Carson, Johnny

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Ewing, Sam

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