Motivational Quotes

Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Success

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

Larry Page

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

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

Binstock, Louis

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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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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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Mike Ditka

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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 is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Barack Obama

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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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Success has always been a great liar.