Motivational Quotes

Success

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Morley, Christopher

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

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

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Brown, Bob

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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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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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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Degreen, Keith

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Fettig, Art

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bombeck, Erma

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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