Motivational Quotes

Success

My definition of success is control.

- Branagh, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Success

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Popoff, Frank

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Haywood, Spencer

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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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

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Hunt, Bunker

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Houston, George

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

Mike Ditka

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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