Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Seneca

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Los Angeles Times

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Confucius

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Barack Obama

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Twain, Mark

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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