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

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Houston, George

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brande, Dorothea

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Mackay, John W.

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

Barack Obama

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Jean Giraudoux

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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, 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

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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