Motivational Quotes

Success

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Success

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Houston, George

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Mike Ditka

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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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 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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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Anna Pavlova

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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