Motivational Quotes

Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Success

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Henry Kissinger

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Meryl Streep

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Nielson, G. K.

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Popoff, Frank