Motivational Quotes

Success

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

- David Nicholls

Best Quotes about Success

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Backus, Jim

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Coffin, Harold

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

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

Barack Obama

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brown, Bob

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

Robbins, Anthony

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry Kissinger

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.