Motivational Quotes

Success

Why be a man when you can be a success?

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Success

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Los Angeles Times

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

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

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

Meryl Streep

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

Michael Flatley

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Holt, Hamilton

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

Reggie Leach

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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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

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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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