Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Walters, Dottie

Best Quotes about Success

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

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Korda, Michael

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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 you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Mike Ditka

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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

Backus, Jim

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett