Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

1.

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

2.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

3.

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

Fillmore, Charles

4.

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

Collins, Marva

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

8.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

12.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

13.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

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.

16.

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.

17.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

18.

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

Fran Lebowitz

19.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

20.

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

Hogan, James P.

21.

Success and money have nothing in common.

22.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

23.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

24.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

Crowell, Merle

27.

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

Johnson, Pete

28.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

29.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Alderson, M. H.

32.

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

33.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

34.

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

Berlin, Irving

35.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

38.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

41.

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, John

44.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

45.

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

46.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

47.

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

48.

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

Korda, Michael

49.

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

Disney, Walt

50.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim