Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Streisand, Barbara

Best Quotes about Success

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Ward, William A.

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Syrus, Publilius

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Ewing, Sam

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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

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Larry Page

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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.