Motivational Quotes

Success

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Success

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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 is failure turned inside out.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Quayle, Dan

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Aristotle

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

Disney, Walt

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.