Motivational Quotes

Success

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

- Price, Leontyne

Best Quotes about Success

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Walters, Dottie

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.