Motivational Quotes

Success

To give your best is to receive the best.

- Holliwell, Raymond

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Tracy, Brian

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Collins, Marva

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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

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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

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Wilson, Earl

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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