Motivational Quotes

Success

We fall forward to succeed.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Success

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fillmore, Charles

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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

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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Lady Gaga

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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.

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

Collier, Robert

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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