Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Success

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lady Gaga

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

Mizner, Wilson

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Wilbur Wright

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Penn, Jack

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles