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

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

Arthur Rubinstein

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Disney, Walt

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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