Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Korda, Michael

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Mizner, Wilson

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Henry Kissinger

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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 secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Reggie Leach

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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