Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Disney, Walt

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

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Crowell, Merle

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Browder, Charles

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Dyke, Leroy Van