Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Kane, Walter

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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 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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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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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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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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Anna Pavlova

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Smith, May V.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Backus, Jim

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Ewing, Sam

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.