Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is failure turned inside out.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Henry David Thoreau

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Browder, Charles

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.