Motivational Quotes

Success

We fall forward to succeed.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Success

1.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

2.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

3.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Cronkite, Walter

7.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

8.

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

9.

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

10.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

12.

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

13.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

16.

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

Ziglar, Zig

17.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

18.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

19.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

20.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

21.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

22.

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

Banks, Harry F.

23.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

24.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

25.

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

26.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

27.

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

28.

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

Binstock, Louis

29.

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

30.

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

32.

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

Michael Flatley

33.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

34.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

Korda, Michael

36.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

37.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

38.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

39.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

41.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

42.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

46.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

47.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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

49.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

50.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman