Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Billings, Josh

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

Haywood, Spencer

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

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

Browder, Charles

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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 tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ward, William A.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

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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

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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 climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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 most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Streisand, Barbara