Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Walters, Dottie

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Syrus, Publilius

18.

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Ward, William A.

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nunn, Gregory