Motivational Quotes

Success

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hogan, James P.

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Christopher Morley

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

Smith, May V.

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

Seneca

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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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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

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Collier, Robert

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Underpromise; overdeliver.