Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Meryl Streep

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Backus, Jim

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Penn, Jack

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Alderson, M. H.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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