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 largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Seneca

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Smith, May V.

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Brown, Bob

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Barack Obama

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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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

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt