Motivational Quotes

Success

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Success

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

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

Wilbur Wright

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

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

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.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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

12.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

13.

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

14.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

15.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

16.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

Ashe, Arthur

19.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

22.

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

Degreen, Keith

23.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

24.

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

25.

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

29.

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

30.

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

Lady Gaga

31.

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

32.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

33.

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

Morley, Christopher

34.

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

Dorsett, Tony

35.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

36.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

37.

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

38.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

39.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

40.

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

Napier, Sir Charles

41.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

42.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

43.

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

Powell, Colin

44.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

48.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

49.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

50.

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

Johnson, John