Motivational Quotes

Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Success

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Henry David Thoreau

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Browder, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van