Motivational Quotes

Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

- Kennedy Jr., Robert

Best Quotes about Success

1.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

2.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

3.

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

Aristotle

4.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

5.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

6.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

7.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

8.

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

Degreen, Keith

9.

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.

10.

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

Larry Page

11.

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

12.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

13.

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

14.

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

16.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

17.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

19.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

20.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

21.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

22.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

23.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

24.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

25.

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

Johnson, John

26.

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

27.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

28.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

30.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

31.

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

Lady Gaga

32.

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

Fillmore, Charles

33.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

34.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

35.

Success and money have nothing in common.

36.

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

37.

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

Henry Kissinger

38.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

39.

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

40.

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