Motivational Quotes

Success

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

- Smeltzer, Ruth

Best Quotes about Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bombeck, Erma

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Hunt, Bunker

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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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

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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 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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Smith, May V.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Backus, Jim

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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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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 is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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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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

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Henry Kissinger

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.