Motivational Quotes

Success

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

- Larry Page

Best Quotes about Success

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Morley, Christopher

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Browder, Charles

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Mackay, John W.

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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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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Streisand, Barbara

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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

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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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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew