Motivational Quotes

Success

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

- Meryl Streep

Best Quotes about Success

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Johnson, John

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

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Marquis, Don

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Smith, May V.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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 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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.