Motivational Quotes

Success

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Success

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

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

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Luckman, Charles

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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