Motivational Quotes

Success

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

- Nielson, G. K.

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Korda, Michael

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Quayle, Dan

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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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

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brande, Dorothea

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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