Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Marquis, Don

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fran Lebowitz

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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