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

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Tracy, Brian

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thomas A. Edison

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Larry Page

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Coffin, Harold

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Rohn, Jim

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Brown, Bob

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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