Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Larry Page

Best Quotes about Success

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

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

Carson, Johnny

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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 measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Durante, Jimmy

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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 requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Johnson, John

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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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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

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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