Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Success

1.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

2.

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.

3.

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

4.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

5.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

6.

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.

7.

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

Anna Pavlova

8.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

9.

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

Morley, Christopher

10.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

11.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

12.

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.

13.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

14.

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

15.

Success is failure turned inside out.

16.

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

17.

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

18.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

19.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

20.

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

Confucius

21.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

22.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

23.

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

24.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

25.

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

26.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

27.

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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

29.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

30.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

31.

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

Walters, Dottie

32.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

33.

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

Baum, Vicki

34.

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

35.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

36.

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

Coffin, Harold

37.

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.

38.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

39.

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

Los Angeles Times

40.

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.

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

43.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

44.

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

Thomas A. Edison

45.

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

Carson, Johnny

46.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

47.

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

48.

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

50.

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

Nightingale, Earl