Motivational Quotes

Success

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

- Namath, Joe

Best Quotes about Success

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

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Coffin, Harold

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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 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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.