Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Lady Gaga

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Collier, Robert

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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

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

Ewing, Sam

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

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Quayle, Dan

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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 control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Reggie Leach

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Holiday, Billie

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres