Motivational Quotes

Success

The only journey is the one within.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Success

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Crowell, Merle

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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 not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Wooden, 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

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

Proverb

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Popoff, Frank

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Hogan, James P.

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Aristotle

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Browder, Charles

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

Quayle, Dan

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.