Motivational Quotes

Success

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Lady Gaga

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

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Hunt, Bunker

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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

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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