Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

- Tarkenton, Fran

Best Quotes about Success

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

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

Kin Hubbard

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bombeck, Erma

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Barack Obama

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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 great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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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 greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Luckman, Charles

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Waitley, Denis