Motivational Quotes

Success

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

- Streisand, Barbara

Best Quotes about Success

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Backus, Jim

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 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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Barack Obama

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Hogan, James P.

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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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

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Smith, May V.

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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 nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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