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

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Rohn, Jim

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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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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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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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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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Mizner, Wilson

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.