Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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 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

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

Walters, Dottie

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

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Emily Dickinson

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Nightingale, Earl

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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 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 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

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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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

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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 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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Bob

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Marquis, Don

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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