Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Winters, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Thomas A. Edison

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Christopher Morley

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Johnson, John

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Houston, George

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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 is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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 is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Smith, May V.

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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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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Collins, Marva