Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

- Whitman, Howard

Best Quotes about Success

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Johnson, John

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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 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 real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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

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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

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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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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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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