Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Napier, Sir Charles

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Dorsett, Tony

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

Cronkite, Walter

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Los Angeles Times

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Albert Schweitzer

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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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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Kane, Walter