Motivational Quotes

Success

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Success

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

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Banks, Harry F.

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Wooden, John

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Haywood, Spencer

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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