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

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

Larry Page

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Seneca

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.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Quayle, Dan

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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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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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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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Brown, Bob

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Fettig, Art

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Barack Obama

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Rohn, Jim