Motivational Quotes

Success

My definition of success is control.

- Branagh, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Success

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Aristotle

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Barack Obama

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Christopher Morley

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Fettig, Art

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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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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

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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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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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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.