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

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

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

Lady Gaga

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

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

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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Mike Ditka

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Allen, James

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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

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Collier, Robert

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Holt, Hamilton

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.