Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

13.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

15.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

16.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

17.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

18.

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

Henry Kissinger

19.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

20.

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

21.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

22.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

23.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

Morley, Christopher

25.

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

26.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

27.

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

Backus, Jim

28.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

30.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

31.

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Grable, Betty

38.

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

39.

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

40.

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

Banks, Harry F.

41.

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.

42.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

43.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

44.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

45.

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

46.

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

47.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

48.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

49.

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