Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

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

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Fettig, Art

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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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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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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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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

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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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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Ziglar, Zig

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael