Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Success

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Morley, Christopher

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Henry David Thoreau

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Marquis, Don

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

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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 simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Smith, May V.

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Walters, Dottie

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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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