Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Holiday, Billie

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Ellen DeGeneres

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Barack Obama

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

Reggie Leach

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Powell, Colin

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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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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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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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