Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Success

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

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.

3.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

4.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

5.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

6.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

7.

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

Banks, Harry F.

8.

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

Hogan, James P.

9.

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

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.

12.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

13.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

14.

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

Marquis, Don

15.

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

16.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

17.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

18.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

Disney, Walt

21.

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

22.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

23.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

24.

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

25.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

26.

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

Fettig, Art

27.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

28.

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

33.

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

34.

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

35.

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

36.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

37.

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.

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

40.

Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

41.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

42.

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

43.

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

44.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

45.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

46.

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

Cronkite, Walter

47.

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