Motivational Quotes

Success

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

- Granatelli, Andrew

Best Quotes about Success

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

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Streisand, Barbara

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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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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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Christopher Morley

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Crowell, Merle

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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 is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Marquis, Don