Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

1.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Albert Schweitzer

8.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

9.

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

10.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

11.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

13.

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

14.

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

Gray, Albert

15.

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

16.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

17.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

18.

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

19.

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

20.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

21.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

22.

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

23.

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

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

26.

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

27.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

28.

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

29.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

30.

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.

31.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

32.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

33.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

35.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

36.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

37.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

38.

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

Wendte, C. W.

39.

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

40.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

41.

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

Mike Ditka

42.

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

Korda, Michael

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

45.

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

46.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

47.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

48.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

49.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl