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

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Seneca

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ewing, Sam

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Fettig, Art

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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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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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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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