Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Success

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

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

Johnson, Pete

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

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

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

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.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Mike Ditka

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Michael Flatley

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Streisand, Barbara

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Johnson, John

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo