Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Nielson, G. K.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, John

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Karbo, Joe

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl