Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

- Christopher Lasch

Best Quotes about Success

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Mackay, John W.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Billings, Josh

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Collier, Robert

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Ashe, Arthur

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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 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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher