Motivational Quotes

Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Success

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

Anderson, Sparky

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.

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

Confucius

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.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Johnson, John

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Fillmore, Charles

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Christopher Morley

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Ewing, Sam

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Winters, Jonathan

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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