Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Anna Pavlova

Best Quotes about Success

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Henry Kissinger

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Degreen, Keith

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Quayle, Dan

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Streisand, Barbara

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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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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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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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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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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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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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 comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch