Motivational Quotes

Success

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Success

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

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

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

Meryl Streep

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

Gambetta, Leon

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

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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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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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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 gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Pete

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Streisand, Barbara

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.