Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Durante, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Success

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Marden, Orison Swett

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Reggie Leach

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Quayle, Dan

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Twain, Mark

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fran Lebowitz

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Collins, Marva

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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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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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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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.

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie