Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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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.

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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

Fettig, Art

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Brown, Bob

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Coffin, Harold

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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

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Korda, Michael

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Penn, Jack

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

Jean Giraudoux