Motivational Quotes

Success

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Success

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

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Quayle, Dan

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Winters, Jonathan

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barack Obama

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Haywood, Spencer

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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.