Motivational Quotes

Success

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Success

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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

11.

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

14.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

15.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

16.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

17.

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.

18.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

19.

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

Hogan, James P.

20.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

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

Crowell, Merle

22.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

23.

When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

24.

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

25.

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

26.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

27.

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

Powell, Colin

28.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

Holiday, Billie

31.

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

Michael Flatley

32.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

33.

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

Korda, Michael

34.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

35.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

36.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

37.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

38.

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

39.

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

Nightingale, Earl

40.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

41.

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

43.

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

Thomas A. Edison

44.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

45.

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

Fran Lebowitz

46.

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

47.

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

Henry David Thoreau

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe