Motivational Quotes

Success

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

- Walters, Barbara

Best Quotes about Success

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

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

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Henry Kissinger

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Brown, Bob

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Ewing, Sam

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Twain, Mark

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for 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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.