Motivational Quotes

Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Success

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Larry Page

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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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

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Henry David Thoreau

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