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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Allen, James

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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 comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Backus, Jim

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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 real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Churchill, Winston

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Collier, Robert

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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