Motivational Quotes

Success

My definition of success is control.

- Branagh, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Success

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Hogan, James P.

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Backus, Jim

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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.

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

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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.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.