Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Success

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Winters, Jonathan

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Price, Leontyne

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

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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 tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Coffin, Harold

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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 as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alderson, M. H.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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