Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Korda, Michael

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Mike Ditka

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes