Motivational Quotes

Success

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Success

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

Morley, Christopher

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Albert Einstein

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

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

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Brown, Bob

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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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.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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 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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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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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin