Motivational Quotes

Success

My definition of success is control.

- Branagh, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Success

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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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 comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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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

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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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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 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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Smith, May V.

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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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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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