Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Wooden, John

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Berlin, Irving

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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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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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Houston, George

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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

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

Price, Leontyne

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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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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Larry Page

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

Kin Hubbard