Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Success

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

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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 germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Smith, May V.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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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 secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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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 real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Mike Ditka

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times