Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Binstock, Louis

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wilson, Earl

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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 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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Aristotle

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl