Motivational Quotes

Success

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Proverb

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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, 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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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 not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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 sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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