Motivational Quotes

Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Larry Page

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Streisand, Barbara

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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 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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mike Ditka

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Reggie Leach

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Houston, George

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.