Motivational Quotes

Success

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

- Hunt, Bunker

Best Quotes about Success

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Walsh, Basil S.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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 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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Holiday, Billie

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Proverb

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Fran Lebowitz

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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