Motivational Quotes

Success

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Success

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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 and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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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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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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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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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 important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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 is more attitude than aptitude.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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