Motivational Quotes

Success

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about 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

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

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

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.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Korda, Michael

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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

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

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

Larry Page

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Korda, Michael

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

Mike Ditka