Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Wilbur Wright

Best Quotes about Success

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

Jean Giraudoux

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

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

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Penn, Jack

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.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Disney, Walt

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

Gray, Albert

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Browder, Charles

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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.

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, May V.

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.