Motivational Quotes

Success

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

- Bliss, Edwin C.

Best Quotes about Success

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Kane, Walter

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

Dorsett, Tony

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

Crowell, Merle

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter