Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Lady Gaga

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

11.

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.

12.

When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

13.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

14.

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

15.

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

16.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

17.

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

Christopher Morley

18.

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

19.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Cronkite, Walter

21.

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

Collins, Marva

22.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

23.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

24.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

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.

26.

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

Ashe, Arthur

27.

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

Walters, Dottie

28.

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

Carson, Johnny

29.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

30.

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

Crowell, Merle

31.

Success is failure turned inside out.

32.

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

33.

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

34.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

35.

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

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

38.

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

39.

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

40.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

41.

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

Nunn, Gregory

42.

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

Powell, Colin

43.

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

44.

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

Meryl Streep

45.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

50.

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.