Motivational Quotes

Success

My definition of success is control.

- Branagh, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Success

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Mizner, Wilson

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

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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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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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.

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Mike Ditka

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker