Motivational Quotes

Success

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

1.

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.

2.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

3.

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

4.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

5.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

6.

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

Henry Kissinger

7.

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

Los Angeles Times

8.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

9.

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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.

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

12.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

13.

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

Walters, Dottie

14.

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

15.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

16.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

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

Ashe, Arthur

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

22.

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

23.

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

Berlin, Irving

24.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

25.

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

Fillmore, Charles

26.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

27.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

28.

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

29.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Tracy, Brian

31.

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

Johnson, John

32.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

33.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

35.

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

36.

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

37.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

38.

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

39.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

40.

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

41.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.