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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

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

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Ewing, Sam

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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 is failure turned inside out.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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 need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Disney, Walt

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Los Angeles Times

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Why be a man when you can be a success?