Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Larry Page

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Mike Ditka

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Reggie Leach

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

Confucius

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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

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success is a journey, not a destination.