Motivational Quotes

Success

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

- Wendte, C. W.

Best Quotes about Success

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Emily Dickinson

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Henry Kissinger

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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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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 is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Waitley, Denis

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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

Mike Ditka

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

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Coffin, Harold

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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

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.