Motivational Quotes

Success

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

- Gibson, Mimfa A.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Noble, Alex

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, John

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Grable, Betty

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Allen, James

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Korda, Michael

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Fettig, Art

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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 succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie