Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Haywood, Spencer

Best Quotes about Success

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Browder, Charles

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

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Backus, Jim

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Haywood, Spencer

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Mizner, Wilson

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Brown, Bob

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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