Motivational Quotes

Success

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

- Hunt, Bunker

Best Quotes about Success

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Alderson, M. H.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Jean Giraudoux

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Brown, Bob

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Penn, Jack

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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 steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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 counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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 you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson