Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is a journey, not a destination.

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Success

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

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 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

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Binstock, Louis

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Kane, Walter

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Reggie Leach

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Backus, Jim

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Hunt, Bunker

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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Disney, Walt

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

Johnson, John

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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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 is failure turned inside out.