Motivational Quotes

Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Reggie Leach

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Allen, James

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

Disney, Walt

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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

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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Seneca

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Proverb

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Collier, Robert

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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 in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Korda, Michael

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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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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Gray, Albert