Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Fran Lebowitz

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

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

Henry Kissinger

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

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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Henry David Thoreau

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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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

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Wooden, John

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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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, 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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Johnson, John

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex