Motivational Quotes

Success

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Success

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

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

Powell, Colin

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.

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

Seneca

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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 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 need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Reggie Leach

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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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 key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Smith, May V.

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

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Twain, Mark

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