Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Durante, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Success

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Kane, Walter

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Popoff, Frank

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Morley, Christopher

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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.

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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 really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Anna Pavlova

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