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

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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.

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

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Backus, Jim

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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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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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Ewing, Sam

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Collier, Robert

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

Johnson, John

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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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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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ward, William A.

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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