Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Streisand, Barbara

Best Quotes about Success

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Arthur Rubinstein

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fillmore, Charles

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

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

Backus, Jim

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Houston, George

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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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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 secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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