Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Degreen, Keith

Best Quotes about Success

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

Schweitzer, Albert

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Brown, Bob

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Los Angeles Times

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Emily Dickinson

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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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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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Nielson, G. K.

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