Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Los Angeles Times

Best Quotes about Success

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

Larry Page

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Alderson, M. H.

13.

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

Luckman, Charles

14.

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

Thomas A. Edison

15.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

16.

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

17.

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

Henry David Thoreau

18.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

19.

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.

20.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

21.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

22.

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

Baum, Vicki

23.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

24.

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.

25.

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

26.

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

Syrus, Publilius

27.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

28.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

29.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

30.

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

31.

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

32.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

33.

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

Backus, Jim

34.

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

35.

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

36.

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.

37.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

38.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

39.

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

40.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

41.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

46.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

47.

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

48.

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

Powell, Colin

49.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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

Korda, Michael