Motivational Quotes

Success

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Mizner, Wilson

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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 the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

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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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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Crowell, Merle

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Smith, May V.

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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.