Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wendte, C. W.

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Franki

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Luckman, Charles

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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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.