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

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

Morley, Christopher

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Ewing, Sam

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Fillmore, Charles

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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 is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Collins, Marva

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.