Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Best Quotes about Success

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Ashe, Arthur

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

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Korda, Michael

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.