Motivational Quotes

Success

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Albert Einstein

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Los Angeles Times

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Wilson, Earl

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Brown, Bob

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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

Anna Pavlova

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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