Motivational Quotes

Success

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

- Herzog, Raymond

Best Quotes about Success

1.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

2.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

3.

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

4.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

5.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

8.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

9.

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

Bombeck, Erma

10.

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

11.

Success is failure turned inside out.

12.

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

Caldwell, Sarah

13.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

14.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

16.

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

Backus, Jim

17.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

19.

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

20.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

21.

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.

22.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

23.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

24.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

26.

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

27.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

28.

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

29.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

30.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

31.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

32.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

33.

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

Mackay, John W.

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

36.

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

Confucius

37.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

38.

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.

39.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

40.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

41.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

42.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

43.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

44.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

45.

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

Hogan, James P.

46.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.