Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Damon, Matt

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

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

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.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Berlin, Irving

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carson, Johnny

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Anna Pavlova

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Los Angeles Times

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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 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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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