Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Fillmore, Charles

Best Quotes about Success

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Degreen, Keith

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

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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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 in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Mike Ditka

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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The only journey is the one within.