Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Success

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Tracy, Brian

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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

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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 is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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 is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Mizner, Wilson

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Houston, George

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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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Powell, Colin

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fran Lebowitz

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.