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

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

Mizner, Wilson

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Albert Schweitzer

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Ziglar, Zig

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Disney, Walt

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Damon, Matt

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Popoff, Frank

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.