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

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Gray, Albert

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.

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.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Quayle, Dan

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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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.

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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Houston, George

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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