Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Success

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

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Streisand, Barbara

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Meryl Streep

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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 is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John