Motivational Quotes

Success

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

- Degreen, Keith

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mackay, John W.

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

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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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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Banks, Harry F.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.