Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Whitman, Howard

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Haywood, Spencer

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Browder, Charles

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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 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

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Wendte, C. W.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Henry Kissinger

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Thomas A. Edison

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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