Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Walters, Dottie

Best Quotes about Success

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Larry Page

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Backus, Jim

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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

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

Price, Leontyne

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Barack Obama

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.