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

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

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Collier, Robert

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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 is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Barack Obama

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

Christopher Morley

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Winters, Jonathan

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.