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

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Johnson, John

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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 formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Albert Schweitzer

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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

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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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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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.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony