Motivational Quotes

Success

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

- Brown, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

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

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Emily Dickinson

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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.

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

Los Angeles Times

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Nightingale, Earl

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Albert Einstein

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Henry Kissinger

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls