Motivational Quotes

Success

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

- Irving Berlin

Best Quotes about Success

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Disney, Walt

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

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Backus, Jim

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

Morley, Christopher

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis