Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Success

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Ward, William A.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Houston, George

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Durante, Jimmy

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Brown, Bob

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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 best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.