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

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

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Smith, May V.

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

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 is failure turned inside out.

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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 a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Ellen DeGeneres

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

Johnson, John

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt