Motivational Quotes

Success

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

- Mille, Cecil B. De

Best Quotes about Success

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Grable, Betty

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Price, Leontyne

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

Morley, Christopher

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Houston, George

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Larry Page