Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Streisand, Barbara

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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 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.

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

Collier, Robert

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Houston, George

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Meryl Streep

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

Bombeck, Erma

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Meryl Streep

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Brown, Bob

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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