Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Popoff, Frank

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Collier, Robert

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Backus, Jim

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Mike Ditka

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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 always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Degreen, Keith

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep