Motivational Quotes

Success

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Success

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Morley, Christopher

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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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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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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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Bombeck, Erma

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Barack Obama

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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 is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben