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

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Henry David Thoreau

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Christopher Morley

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emily Dickinson

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Confucius

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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Reggie Leach

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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 two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.