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

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

Allen, James

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

Collins, Marva

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.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Popoff, Frank

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Albert Schweitzer

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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.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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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

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Ewing, Sam

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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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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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Lady Gaga

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals