Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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 is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Michael Flatley

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Wendte, C. W.

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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 going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You always pass failure on the way to success.