Motivational Quotes

Success

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

Success is failure turned inside out.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

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

Hunt, Bunker

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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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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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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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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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

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Proverb

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Tracy, Brian

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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

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

Hogan, James P.