Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

1.

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

2.

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

Backus, Jim

3.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

5.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

6.

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

Winters, Jonathan

7.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

8.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

9.

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

10.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

11.

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

Banks, Harry F.

12.

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

Gray, Albert

13.

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.

14.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

15.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

16.

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

Hogan, James P.

17.

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

Johnson, John

18.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

19.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

20.

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

Houston, George

21.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

22.

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

Anna Pavlova

23.

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

24.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

25.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

26.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

27.

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

Walters, Dottie

28.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

29.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

30.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

31.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

32.

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

33.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

34.

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

35.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

36.

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.

37.

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

Larry Page

38.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

39.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

40.

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

41.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

42.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

43.

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

Nunn, Gregory

44.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

45.

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.

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

48.

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

Morley, Christopher

49.

Success and money have nothing in common.

50.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.