Motivational Quotes

Success

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

- Follin, G. W.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Confucius

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Barack Obama

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Korda, Michael

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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

11.

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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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Albert Einstein

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

42.

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

43.

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence