Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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 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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Disney, Walt

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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 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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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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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