Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

- Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Best Quotes about Success

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

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Los Angeles Times

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Rohn, Jim

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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 going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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 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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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

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

Crowell, Merle

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Larry Page

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

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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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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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.