Motivational Quotes

Success

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

- Schwartz, David J.

Best Quotes about Success

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

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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 is failure turned inside out.

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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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

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

Barack Obama

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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 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 is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille