Motivational Quotes

Success

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Success

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Johnson, John

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Korda, Michael

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

Nightingale, Earl

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

10.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

11.

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.

12.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

14.

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

15.

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

Powell, Colin

16.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

17.

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

18.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

19.

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

Marquis, Don

20.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

23.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

25.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

26.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

27.

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

28.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

29.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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.

34.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

35.

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

Winters, Jonathan

36.

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

37.

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

Albert Einstein

38.

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

Brown, Bob

39.

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

Backus, Jim

40.

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