Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Powell, Colin

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Korda, Michael

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Banks, Harry F.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hogan, James P.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Fran Lebowitz

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Proverb

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Albert Einstein

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hunt, Bunker

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

Emily Dickinson

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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.

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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 common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.