Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Baum, Vicki

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Binstock, Louis

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Houston, George

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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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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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

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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 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

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Nightingale, Earl

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.