Motivational Quotes

Success

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

- Schwartz, David J.

Best Quotes about Success

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Fettig, Art

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Brown, Bob

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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 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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Rohn, Jim

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Barack Obama

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

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