Motivational Quotes

Success

You never become a howling success by just howling.

- Harrington, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

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 more attitude than aptitude.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Price, Leontyne

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Proverb

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

Wooden, John

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Hill, Napoleon