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

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Smith, May V.

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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 key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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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

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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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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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Meryl Streep

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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Peter, Laurence J.