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 not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Barack Obama

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aristotle

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

Confucius

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.