Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

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

Emily Dickinson

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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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

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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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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 is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Fettig, Art

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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, 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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Brown, Bob