Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

10.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

11.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

12.

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

13.

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

Gray, Albert

14.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

18.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

19.

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

Morley, Christopher

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

22.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

23.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

24.

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

25.

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

Durante, Jimmy

26.

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

Morley, Christopher

28.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

30.

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

Allen, James

31.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

32.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

33.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

35.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

36.

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

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 is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

39.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

40.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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.

42.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

44.

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

45.

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

46.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

47.

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

48.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

49.

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

50.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.