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

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Emily Dickinson

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Twain, Mark

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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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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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Penn, Jack

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Crowell, Merle

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Powell, Colin

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Ewing, Sam

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew