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

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth