Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Anna Pavlova

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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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 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

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Collins, Marva

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Lady Gaga

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John