Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Success

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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.

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Carson, Johnny

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Schweitzer, Albert

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Brown, Bob

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

Henry Kissinger

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

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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